Mozilla

Summary

• We have 2 nsbranch+ bugs.
• mstoltz working on security reviewers' guide.
  
• jst, peterv were on vacation, both are now back.
  

Accomplishments

• harishd
  • Focused mainly on compact policy issues ( integrating with cookie manager etc. ). Yet to build on Linux and Mac.
  • Fixed bug 103387 ( DIV-DD containment issue ).
  • Fixed bug 102370 ( DT-DD containment issue ).
  • Worked on bugs 100466, 100397, 20163 ( partial fix in hand ).
  • Tiaged my untargeted bugs.
  • Did code reviews.
• peterv
  • (Includes previous week)
  • Checked in fix for bug 97687 ([serializer]cs/gecko: copying using keyboard shortcuts>paste>source pasted) and follow up bug 102809 (ABR in nsPlainTextSerializer::AppendText; indexing -1 on array).
  • Checked in some warning fixes.
  • Reviews of some Transformiix patches by sicking and Pike.
  • Helped bbaetz and akkana with mac project changes.
  • Implemented the DOM Level 3 XPath WD.
  • Looked into extension functions for Transfromiix.
  • Tracked down memory leaks in my ouput rewrite.
  • Took 3 days holiday.
• mstoltz
  • Security review of window size & position restrictions
  • Found 2 window size/options bugs, fixed one
  • Looking through old security bugs to create regression test list
  • Tested signed scripts on 3 platforms; still broken on the Mac
  • Background reserach for security reviewers' guide - studying some books on security
  • Trying to reverse-engineer ckritzer's "loaderman" test harness so we can write new testcases for it
• heikki
  • Fixed 103250, topcrash, selecting text while page loading.
  • Fixed 98214, minor performance improvements and cleanup.
  • Worked on 41983, works except for mysterious crashes.

Plans for next week

• harishd
  • Land compact policy changes.
  • Work on 0.9.6 bugs
  • Discuss parser performance issues with dp.
  • Triage bugs.
• peterv
  • Bug triage.
  • Fix any important serializer issues.
  • Attach a new patch for the Transformiix output rewrite.
  • Look into extension functions some more.
  • Take Friday off.
• mstoltz
  • More research & work on reviewers' guide
  • Fix signed scripts on the Mac again :(
  • Fix some more bugs
• heikki
  • Finish 41983, need to figure out the crash & needs some testing.
  • Provided the above items gets done, land FIXptr.
  • Bug triage.
  • Documentation.

Escalations

• peterv
  • Dial-up in Belgium seems down, this caused me to be offline during the two days that I worked from there.
  • Thanks to heikki for fixing a topcrasher that I caused.

Highlights:

• Lots of leaks fixed.
• Performance work continuing
• We use the operating system's new notification sound on Windows and Mac.
• You can now rename the user name and server in Account Settings.
• Custom Headers for search and filters implemented.
• Go to folder in the search window now works.
• Resolved as fixed 68 bugs.

Mailnews Accomplishments:

• Scott MacGregor
  • Fixed a problem with simple mapi which was causing a browser window to come up when mozilla was started via simple mapi instead of just a compose window.
  • Fixed an infinite loop in our bin hex decoder.
• Cavin Song
  • Made it so we can rename the user name and server in Account Settings .
  • Started working on folder loading performance. He did some tests to show that the preference calls we make are not affecting performance.
• David Bienvenu
  • Fixed a lot of memory leaks
  • Sped up local search dramatically. This will also speed up offline search.
  • Checked in code to close nntp sockets when shutting down which should fix some shutdown assertions and some shutdown leaks.
  • Fixed a bug where we were losing the read state of news messages
    
• Sean Su
  • Worked on Simple Mapi bugs.
• Varada Parthasarathi
  • Worked on the Prefill Filter feature.
• Bhuvan Racham
  • Worked on making Get All New Messages work for all accounts.
• Navin Gupta
  • Checked in the Custom Headers feature for search and filters.
  • Checked in a fix for dataloss when compacting a folder with an outdated summary file. This also fixed a top crash.
  • Started working on Quick Search.
• Seth Spitzer
  • Made it so we use the OS new mail notification sound.
  • Improved performance by making it so that folder listeners can choose which notifications they receive rather than receiving everything.
  • Implemented Go To Folder in the Search window.
    
  • Made next folder navigation work correctly.
  • Made it so that parent folders are bold if they are closed and their subfolders have unread messages.
  • Made it so that we can send news messages when only the browser is open.
    
  • Made it so users can remove non-existent newsgroups.
  • Continued looking into ways we can improve performance.
• Jean-Francois Ducarroz
  • Started fixing bugs to improve our handling of Outlook Express mail
  • Made it so that UNC files are treated as a remote attachment rather than local.
• Simon Fraser
  • Made it so we play the OS sound on the Mac for new mail notifications.
    
• Stephen Donner
  • Continued to file a number of memory leak bugs.
• Jan Varga
  • Made it so we invalidate the scrollbar position when switching folders.
• Denis Antrushin
  • Made it so we put "re" back into the subject when forwarding a replied to message.
    

Summary

• bug fixes going in for the last minute cases. Thanks to darin and gordon.
• heavy triaging continues.
• still lots of triaging to be done.

Highlights

• darin
  • fixed bug 103043 "nsSocketTransport should only fire OnStatus when status changes"
  • backed out now-obsolete patch for bug 89191 "Acrobat fails to load PDFs from HTTP/1.0 only servers"
  • attended intel vtune performance meeting
  • worked on patches to fix URL parsing performance problems
  • fixed bug 104181 "SH should not store layout state if server sends 'Cache-control: no-cache'"
  • got mach-o trunk build up and running :-)
  • triages bugs
• neeti
  • Working on removing nsIShutdownListener from nsServiceEntry in ComponentManager.
  • Triaged a lot of bugs.
  • Waiting for review on bug 96461.
• gordon
  • Bugs resolved (FIXED, WFM) 52590, 72066, 88904, 93845, 99760.
  • Reviewed changes for 103883, 101651.
• pavlov
  • bug 104311 - removed lots of xpcom overuse inside imagelib. This helped to clean up some code up as well as help to avoid lots of useless virtual function calls, etc.
  • bug 64096 - added a method to get the mimetype of an image after it has been decoded.
  • bug 92453 - removed lowsrc support from <img>
  • Gave cool demo on Wednesday

Lowlights

Plans for next week

• darin
  • triage more bugs
  • finish patches for URL perf work
  • work on bugs for 0.9.6
  • work on plans for DIG
  • test optimized mach-o build
• neeti
  • Continue work on ComponentManager cleanup.
• gordon
  • Fix bugs 103167, 102229, 101857, 97097.
  • Revisit NSPR API for truncating files, in hopes of adding it to the next release.
  • Develop cache plan for Vidur's Web App proposal.
• pavlov
  • Keep working on bugs

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